Piano Pedagogy Workshop

AS OF SEPT 10, THIS EVENT IS CANCELED.Featured Clinician: Karen Taylor

Dr. Karen Taylor headlines a one-day-only Piano Pedagogy Workshop at Webster University
on Saturday, 21 September 2013. Dr. Taylor is Director of the Young Pianists Program
and Piano Academy at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

Webster University Faculty

Guest Faculty

Dr. Karen Taylor is Assistant Professor of Music at the Indiana University Jacobs
School of Music, where she directs the Young Pianists Program and the nationally respected
Summer Piano Academy, and coordinates piano pedagogy studies.

A sought-after master teacher, clinician and adjudicator, she specializes in working
with gifted young musicians and is widely esteemed for her diagnostic skills and dynamic,
integrative style of teaching. Concurrent with her IU post she was adjunct associate
professor of piano at DePauw University from 1990-2000, as well as visiting professor
of at Webster University in 1998 and 2003. Prior to that she was principal piano
teacher and interim department chair at Lincoln Trail University (Robinson, IL).

Dr. Taylor has a wealth of experience in teaching, performance, and research. She
has formed numerous regional and national competition prizewinners, and many of her
former students are now making fine careers as performers and university teachers.
The recipient of many teaching excellence honors including IMTA Music Teacher of the
Year, she has been awarded grants from Indiana University, the Harriet Hale Woolley
Foundation, the French government and the Ecole Normale de Musique for study and research
in Paris.

She holds performance and pedagogy degrees from Indiana University and DePauw University;
her principal teachers were Walter Robert and Enrica Cavallo-Gulli at IU, and Yvonne
Lefébure in Paris, France. She has performed across the Midwest and abroad, and has
presented more than 80 master classes, lectures and workshops.